"After all the tantrums and breakdowns and crying fits, the album ends with Stevie Nicks asking you point blank: 'Is it over now? Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home?' If the answers are 'no' and 'no,' you flip the record and play it again. "Rumours remains so powerful because it’s so ruthlessly clear-eyed about the crisis, instead of smoothing it over," Christine explained to Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone placed it at number 26 on their list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, describing the band as turning “private turmoil into gleaming, melodic public art.” Considered by many fans and critics as the band’s best release, Rumours was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry. The core five members of Fleetwood Mac would go on to produce further studio albums and tour and would disband and then reunite over the decades. There was a gap between what I felt was important internally – what I had accomplished musically – and the popular acclaim.” Originally this was recorded in 1977, a decade after the band took off- but the timeless and effortless. “At some point, all the stuff surrounding it started to become the main focus. Buckingham and Nicks share lead vocals on the song. “When Rumors went crazy, I just couldn’t bring myself to feel strongly about the album,” he said to Rolling Stone in 1984. Though Rumours would go on to become a massive international hit and musical anchor to the latter part of the '70s, Buckingham remembers having mixed feelings about creating such a bittersweet ode to love lost and found. 'Rumours' became one of the band's most successful albums
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